LOCAL ISSUES ALL OVER INDIA

There are three issues of local government in Mumbai, I want to
discuss (with possible solutions) ; which are relevant everywhere in India-
related to City Municipal corporation or rural gram panchayats.

1> There are lot of social and cultural groups in Mumbai - On language basis Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, South Indian etc. , they   take/collect/ charge  money and do activities like organizing commercial Plays , organizing international as well as domestic tours, organizing Mohamaad Raffi and Kishore Kumar Nights.

However to the Best to our surprise, Many big organizations with  even 5000 plus
members are not registered. They keep no accounts and no audits. They are
not regulated by any particular regulator. Does charity commissioner regulate them?

The committee members are not elected by members of the group but
are selected by founders. Plus there is no reshuffle in committee regularly.
Instead of senior committee members, rich and corrupt take over the committees.

My Humble request is to bring them all under proper registration, proper accounting,
proper audits etc. Plus if  their incomes attract any  tax liability, they should be made to
contribute to tax.

2> Residence Welfare Associations :
These so called "Welfare groups"  for residential people. These groups 
are bully and have negative power nexus.

These are mostly groups of retired , unemployed or underemployed senior citizens.
They collect lot of money from surrounding buildings , from residential households
and do some decoration/plantation activities with their whims and fancies.

They pay to their favorite  contractors. They plant ornamental  trees  and plants ,
instead of useful trees. This can instead be done in systematic manner by farming and
gardening experts.
 
These activities are not regulated and create big menace , wastage of land , money
(of households) ,time (of labor , contractors) , Energy.
   
Here also, the committee members are not elected by members of the group but
are selected by founders. Plus there is no reshuffle in committee regularly.
Instead of senior committee members, rich and corrupt take over the committees.

3> Committees  of co-operative  Societies : Same corruption prevails here.
There is no reshuffle in committee regularly.
Solution is to Centralize.
Let (present condition) instead of people in one building forming - registering  co operative housing society and members of the one building deciding to make committee;
Let (new modified idea) members of multiple buildings- say 10 buildings make formation of  community housing society and let members of all 10 buildings make one committee.
This will minimize corruption, redundancy, non productivity, inefficiency.

Too much of decentralization OR too much of Centralization
leads to corruption, redundancy, non productivity and inefficiency.

Centralization at District level instead of Gram panchayat level is the
need of the hour , to stop the menace of "Khap panchayats"

Warm Regards
Mr. Bankim Shah